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    m1210 and SSD

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by hoofhearted, Feb 28, 2009.

  1. hoofhearted

    hoofhearted Notebook Evangelist

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    I have a Dell XPS m1210. I am thinking about an SSD harddrive. Win XP is a must. I am looking at the gskill titans on newegg. I am currently running with the 60GB stick drive. What I would like to do is ghost it over and just benefit from SSD speed. Is this possible? Are SSDs even compatible with the m1210? I know they change the HD specs every few months or so (IDE, SATA, SATA-2, etc) , I don't really keep up with the tech on this. I just want to upgrade parts is all.
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    The M1210 has a SATA1 interface. You can use any SATA SSD in an M1210, but you will be limited to the SATA1 bandwidth. As such, I would not recommend the Titan. The Titan uses three on-board controllers, two JMicron flash controllers and a JMicron RAID controller to reach its high sequential read and write speeds; not only will you not be able to take advantage of its full speed, it will run relatively hot.

    Would recommend the Samsung 64GB SLC if you can find one; if you need more space, there's a Corsair 128GB MLC SSD on Newegg which is also a Samsung rebrand. Intel X25-M is also a good choice.
     
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